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Star Wars: The Last Jedi​

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the difference between Abrams´ and Johnson´s style was bothering me quite a bit, especially the humor. It was very different at at times overdone.
It was a good movie overall, but some things however felt out of the blue and rushed- though in themelves fitting. Especially the Kylo and Rey thing. One minute they hate each other, then they talk in their minds and they are what, lovers ?
And I feel like Snoke was wasted, if he is that easy to kill why set him up as the big baddie in the first place. This probably was not what Abrams had in mind.
But I guess I am being picky and will probably grow more attached to the movie after I see it a second, and third time.

0/5 for KK & RJ efforts. They literally phoned it in but I do not expect anything else neither should be anywhere this franchise as they do not understand simple story logic.

11/10 for Mark Hamill he owned it totally everything & everyone else was garbage by far the worse SW movie. It makes the PT look very good (although I enjoyed the PT almost as much as the OT).

The entire movie was very poor. Mark Hamill seemed like he was in a different movie on his own everyone else showed how poor their skills were as an actor. The difference was vast. Mark literally is & was The Last Jedi. SW is finished to me I thought after TFA it could not sink any lower...boy was I wrong!
This new SW is not for fans of the superior Lucas crafted entries that's for sure. KK ensured her crappy new movies went out of their way to try to undermine & destroy everything the Lucas movies tried to achieve. That is the ONLY thing they have achieved here.

1/5.
- Boring story.
- Snoke's fate. What were they thinking? "When I looked in to Ben's mind I realized Snoke had already seduced him to the dark side." Who is Snoke? Is he a supreme leader of the First Order while also being Luke's friend? If not, how did Luke know who Snoke was before Ben turned?
- Luke Skywalker (Bizarro)
- Superman Leia
- Rey Random. The forceback scene from TFA doesn't make sense at all.

None of the descriptions alongside a star rating describe the film for me. For me it’s a wildly ambitious film that deserves credit for what it tries to do, and for succeeding a lot of the time. Star rating for me would have to wait.

I mean talking about superman, we had Anakin flying in drunken-superman style through the air at Coruscant.
So beside the fact that the Leia scene was simply dumb it was nothing new compared to stupid things we already witnessed in the past.

It's a very good action/comedy, but it's not really good as a sequel to the OT. There are certain issues that I just can't overlook now:
- Not a fan of how Luke had to go the obvious martyr route.
- We still need more information about Snoke. He's clearly old enough to have been around during the OT, and seems oddly fascinated by Vader. Given that he's now dead, we're unlikely to get the answers we seek.
- Rey is now bothering me a lot, and that's an issue since she's the main character. I was hoping they'd explain the meteoric rise in power we see in TFA (lineage, training as a child that she'd forgotten, etc), but it's still just a blank. For now it seems that any and all training with the Force is useless. Complete waste of time. If the Force wants you to be good at the Force, it'll just magically pop that knowledge into your head.

I mean talking about superman, we had Anakin flying in drunken-superman style through the air at Coruscant.
So beside the fact that the Leia scene was simply dumb it was nothing new compared to stupid things we already witnessed in the past.

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Not sure if you've ever seen a skydiver before? But Anakin flying, more or less like a skydiver, around in Coruscant is not comparable with Superman Leia.

I mean talking about superman, we had Anakin flying in drunken-superman style through the air at Coruscant.
So beside the fact that the Leia scene was simply dumb it was nothing new compared to stupid things we already witnessed in the past.

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Not sure if you've ever seen a skydiver before? But Anakin flying, more or less like a skydiver, around in Coruscant is not comparable with Superman Leia.

I mean talking about superman, we had Anakin flying in drunken-superman style through the air at Coruscant.
So beside the fact that the Leia scene was simply dumb it was nothing new compared to stupid things we already witnessed in the past.

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Not sure if you've ever seen a skydiver before? But Anakin flying, more or less like a skydiver, around in Coruscant is not comparable with Superman Leia.[/quote]

I mean, we really don't know what the extent of Force powers really is. Kylo can read minds and stop lazer bolts in midair. The Skywalkers essentially are superheroes within this universe, just by a different name. Leia pulling herself to the ship really isn't super out there when u think about it, though I can see how the grandeur of the moment combined with the fact that we've never seen Leia use the Force may have made people not like it. Point I'm trying to make is that the story logic really is there for it even if it doesn't necessarily feel like it in the moment.

I voted 5/5, but it's more like 9.5/10.
The thing I cared about the most was Kylo/Luke/Rey dynamics and Rian nailed it. All of them are challenged, overcome those obstacles and ends up stronger, learn new things about others and themselves. I could point out all the things I liked, but other did it here and in other places. I take of 0,5 point, because Leia's Force scene looked fake and Finn and Rose journey to Canto Bight and Snoke's ship could've been better. Still, things that are good, are so good, that I can ignore the downsides.

0/5 for KK & RJ efforts. They literally phoned it in but I do not expect anything else neither should be anywhere this franchise as they do not understand simple story logic.

11/10 for Mark Hamill he owned it totally everything & everyone else was garbage by far the worse SW movie. It makes the PT look very good (although I enjoyed the PT almost as much as the OT).

The entire movie was very poor. Mark Hamill seemed like he was in a different movie on his own everyone else showed how poor their skills were as an actor. The difference was vast. Mark literally is & was The Last Jedi. SW is finished to me I thought after TFA it could not sink any lower...boy was I wrong!
This new SW is not for fans of the superior Lucas crafted entries that's for sure. KK ensured her crappy new movies went out of their way to try to undermine & destroy everything the Lucas movies tried to achieve. That is the ONLY thing they have achieved here.

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Haha! I actually chuckled loudly at that.

Don't get me wrong, I respect your opinion but I thought the acting was good from many of the cast, not only Hamill. Adam especially did really good. Also, the good stuff in this movie is really good IMO. That fact alone has lifted this far above the PT (for me).

I'm genuinely amazed that quite a few here already have their minds made up on TLJ. I'm still torn and conflicted. This movie hit me hard, and i need a good amount of time and additional viewings to finally make up my mind. I'm not alone on this. It's like several of my all time favorite music albums. The first time i heard them i didn't like them at all. Fast forward a few years and I now appreciate them immensely. It can go both ways of course. Time will tell.

It's an absolute game changer of a movie for this franchise, that's for sure. If i decide that i don't like it, I'll always have the good old, worn out, original (and unaltered) trilogy to keep my happy childhood memories in place.